COVID 19 MANAGEMENT

Covid-19 is now endemic, like flu: Expert

In the initial years, CCMB had maintained live Covid-19 viruses in highly secured labs to assist companies developing vaccines, but that activity has ceased, and genome sequencing has stopped.

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Govt to procure 1 lakh portable oxygen concentrators, 500 more PSA oxygen plants from PM Cares Fund

The PMO said in a statement that the oxygen concentrators and the new PSA plants will greatly augment the supply of oxygen near the demand clusters.
Apollo Hospitals Group releases developed guidelines for Covid-19 Management

The launch of Red book is a part of Apollo Hospitals Group's initiative, named Project Kavach, on disseminating Covid-19 pandemic management-related information.
Small hospitals in Delhi grapple with limited oxygen supply for Covid-19 patients

The administration at Shanti Mukund Hospital, a 200-bed facility in East Delhi, put up a notice at the entry gate, reading: We regret we are stopping admission in hospital because oxygen supply isn't coming.
Delhi government officials to monitor supply of oxygen, medicines

Delhi government has also set up control rooms to facilitate general public for getting drugs for Covid management.
Thiruvananthapuram: Central expert team visits FLTC

The two-member central team, deputed by the Union health ministry to assist Kerala in dealing with surge in Covid cases, visited a first line treatment centre in the district, the medical college and held discussions with collector Navjot Khosa on Saturday.
Covid positivity rate in city 3%, fatality 3.5%

While health officials claim that 100% contact tracing has been achieved in Bhopal, experts are wondering whether the efforts in the city has led to ‘breaking the chain of infection’.
States asked to replicate initiatives taken by Karnataka for COVID-19 management

The Union Health Ministry on Friday lauded the two initiatives taken by Karnataka that have been developed as part of the 'whole of government' approach with the involvement of multi-sectoral agencies and supported by technology-based solutions and interventions.